Basic income organizations & projects

An international network linking people and groups who support basic income. Started in 1986 as a European network, it now runs a world congress, publishes news and connects national affiliates

A European network of activists and initiatives from about 25 countries campaigning for unconditional basic income and for its recognition as a human right (registered as a Belgian non-profit)

A national network pushing for a basic income in Canada through policy work, public information and links with local groups

A US non-profit network promoting a basic income guarantee. It publishes research and articles and holds an annual conference

A US group co-founded by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and others. It funds and supports guaranteed income pilots around the country and pushes for them to become policy

A network of US mayors calling for a guaranteed income, started by former Stockton mayor Michael Tubbs. It backs city cash pilots and a federal policy

The non-profit research group that grew out of Y Combinator Research’s basic income project. It ran a three-year study giving monthly cash to 3,000 people and publishes the findings

A program of Stanford’s Center on Poverty and Inequality that tracks and analyses basic income experiments and pilots and shares what it learns with policymakers and practitioners

An academic journal devoted to basic income, publishing work from economics, philosophy, politics and more (published by De Gruyter Brill)

A group studying and debating the economics of basic income. Formerly “Project Greshm”, it now holds online symposia and similar events

A non-profit that sends donations straight to people living in poverty as cash. It has been giving since 2009 and works in several African countries and the US

A Berlin non-profit that raises donations and raffles off basic incomes of €1,000 a month for a year

A system where every person slowly issues their own currency, used among people linked by trust. Built by Gnosis; you now join through the Gnosis App (the old site was joincircles.net)

A non-profit blockchain basic income project where verified people can claim G$ tokens every day

A libre currency based on the Relative Theory of Money. Members certify one another through a web of trust, and everyone receives a daily dividend. Mostly French-speaking

An open-source app for building a “basic income” within your own group: members chip in each month to support those who fall short. Developed by the okTurtles Foundation

An Austrian research and development association behind Gradido, a currency system billed as a “natural economy”, with an “active basic income” for common-good contributions and money that slowly shrinks when unused

A Japanese academic society where researchers, activists and politicians study basic income from a neutral standpoint. It holds an annual conference and regional study groups and publishes a journal

A private experiment by entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa: 1,000 people each receive ¥1 million in total, split into four groups with different payout patterns and surveyed for about a year on how it affects their lives